It is something to have wept as we… It is something to have done as we… It is something to have watched wh… And seen the stars which never see… It is something to have smelt the…

ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his trib… By cautious birth-control and die… Mellow with learning lightly took… That marked him not with them that… And told the angel of the book and…

The last chapter has been concerned with the contention that orthodoxy is not only (as is often urged) the only safe guardian of morality or order, but is also the only logical guardian...

If sunset clouds could grow on tre… It would but match the may in flow… And skies be underneath the seas No topsyturvier than a shower. If mountains rose on wings to wand…

John Grubby, who was short and st… And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate’s knee; (For so the eternal strife must ra…

Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal… He that made me sealed my ears, And the pomp of gorgeous noises, Waves of triumph, waves of tears, Thundered empty round and past me,

There is a place where lute and ly… Where scrolls are torn and on a wi… Where tablets stand wiped naked fo… Where laurels wither and the daisi… Lo: I too join the brotherhood of…

There has fallen on earth for a to… A god too great for the sky. He has burst out of all things and… The bounds of eternity: Into time and the terminal land

Are they clinging to their crosses… F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosse… Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, trembling, bleed…

The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in our life is required even to improve it; second, that some dissatisfaction with things as they are is necessary eve...

I cannot count the pebbles in the… Well hath He spoken: “Swear not b… Thou knowest not the hairs,” thoug… Writes that wild number in His ow… I cannot count the sands or search…

Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl

When I came back to Fleet Street… Through a sunset nook at night, And saw the old Green Dragon With the windows all alight, And hailed the old Green Dragon

The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. Phrases like “put out” or “off colour” might ha...

A word came forth in Galilee, a w… It climbed and rang and blessed an… A word of sudden secret hope, of t… Of wrath and pity fused in fire, a… A star that o’er the citied world…